Man I’ve had a lot of trouble making a neck for this thing. Started on neck #4 yesterday. Yep, I’ve trashed 3 already. Too big of a hurry I’m thinking. Anyway all I’ve done this time around is route t...

Made some patterns on the laser cutter. I'm using fairly thin MDF hardboard, My plan is to use the router table rather than handheld so I believe the thin template shouldn't pose a problem. I'm not sh...

@bpower I like the idea of the bottle screws on your jig, I'm going to be copying that idea on mine, I've got some of these in my boat junk box.

thanks @russ. 🙂

Nice work @bpower. Lovin' the rosette too. 🎶🙂🎸🙏

thanks @swepri. I did that "random pattern" rosette on my last build too and I am really liking the end result. I think it may become my "thing" on my guitars... or at least some variation of that. 🙂

New bindind arrived today, it's to white, so now I have two that don't match the pickups lol. Anyway ordered another, 3rd time lucky hopefully. In the meantime I got the headstock all shaped, thickn...

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Well.... It has been a while since I posted about this build. I've been pretty busy and haven't had a good chance to make progress... however I am finally making some headway on this build. Here are t...

Turns out the binding is to yelllow when you get it in good light but I have more browny coloured cream binding on the way which should match the pickups better, it's more yellow than it looks in the ...

I agree! Fortunately someone else at the space, more competent than myself, made that jig. Made my life easy. The digital angle ruler really helped too!

@rathius I use regular car matt 1k, so simple, dry sand very lightly after to remove any overspray or that but there's none of this wet sanding or polishing. I ALWAYS sand through gloss lol Look at...

@steveh I have a kit I bought 2 1/2 years ago I’ve still not finished for that very reason. First thing was dropping the body after spraying the final coat of clear 🤦🏻‍♂&...

Yeah I learned that the same way. In my case it was at the neck socket. Yeah. I almost cried. The fix? Well as some may recall, I grew up in an auto body shop so the fix was body filler. Not auto body...

I finally found it on Udemy! It's in the section on gluing the body blanks! Take the new razor blade and scrape it on a sharpening stone. It creates a burr which helps with scraping! Cheers!

@kalimar old maple and mahogany floor boards make nice necks, just trim off the nail holes. For the body any hardwood will do really, just need to be mindful of the weight, Some woods are really heavy...

@nsj Very cool - and a great way to use all of your wood. I'm hoping to start finding old free tables to upcycle into guitars after I get a little more experience under my belt.

@kalimar Over as laminate, it's about 1.5mm thick or so but I like to match the face of the headstock to the body wood.

@nsj does that go over the headstock as a laminate or is the actual headstock? did you make a scarf joint for it?

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